Tag Portugal
“A burning black sphere of sinuous torment” is the offer from Portugal’s The Ominous Circle. You may gather, correctly, that dark ambience is at the centre of this work. Chasmic voids and echoing deathly growls dominate “Heart Girt with a… Continue Reading →
Portugal isn’t exactly a place you would associate with thrash metal when it comes to recognisable artists. Aside from the rather intense and impressive Switchtense which I covered earlier this year, my only real experience with Portuguese metal are the… Continue Reading →
30 minutes of bestial barbarity here from Portughell. Helmed by Reverend of the Hell Legions and Macabre Tyranny on bass and guitar and Reverend of Diabolical Services and Sinister Sorcery drums and vokills, you pretty much know what you are… Continue Reading →
Formed in Moita, Setúbal, back in 2002, Portugal’s thrash machine Switchtense are set to unleash their third album on us. With a couple of EP’s, a split and a 10 year anniversary video recording, the band who have two full… Continue Reading →
Sinistro by name, sinistro by nature. “Semente” (Seed) is the Portuguese band’s third album, and it is as if an artist were painting black canvases. Leaden-heavy in a post metal way, disturbing yet with soft background patterns and a female… Continue Reading →
RAVENSIRE from Portugal are an epic heavy metal band, enthralled in historical lyrical content and musically solid making sounds that are very heavy. There are a few bands out there in the world involved in this style, but few have… Continue Reading →
Do not adjust your set. This is Noise tuning straight into your slaughterhouse with some darkly gothic drone that sounds like a depressed Danzig in one of his bleakest Samhain moments. Ritualistic (as the title might suggest), sparsely populated and with… Continue Reading →
This Portuguese band were a nice find about four years ago and with the then debut EP ‘Iron Will’ showed epic metal promise. Forward through their 2013 release ‘We March Forward’ we come to ‘The Cycle That Never Ends’. It’s… Continue Reading →
I didn’t realise Portugal had its own ‘black circle’ of like-minded artists but apparently it does. Personally I find the whole thing a bit of a schoolboy kvlt clique and don’t take much notices of such collectives but as far… Continue Reading →
Gonius Rex, The Heretic and Soul Reaper a.k.a Onirik return for their fourth album of black metal “wandering textures”. If you’re looking for life this isn’t the best place to come. Grey and drawn out structures seem to represent Onirik’s… Continue Reading →
Initially released as a limited edition cassette, the debut album from Portuguese blackened-doom merchants Vaee Solis gets a CD release from co-conspirators Signal Rex and Mordgrimm, with a vinyl edition planned for 2016. ‘Adversarial Light’ is a vicious little fucker…. Continue Reading →
So, it’s June 2015 and a CD from Crossed Fire with a release date in 2014 arrives? That was the first mystery. The second was who is the band, and how do I find out about them, as I know… Continue Reading →